Middle English Dictionary Entry
inexplicāble adj.
Entry Info
Forms | inexplicāble adj. |
Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Unexplainable; (b) inexpressible.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.203 : The Iugges herenge this, lefte hit as a dowte inexplicable [L inexplicabile].
b
- a1500 Goe lytyll byll (Dc 326)20 : She is enprentyd..With yftis of nature in-explycable.